Tuesday, June 30, 2015

What's a Few Carbon Emissions?

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Willsboro, voted for a bill last
week to postpone states’ compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency’s
Clean Power Plan.

Other Republicans followed suit on Wednesday — 239 voted
yes, and four voted no, while 176 Democrats voted no and eight voted yes.

It's so nice to live in an enlightened state (NY, but yes, of mind too).

“New York already caps carbon pollution from power plants,
so the Clean Power Plan is really about the rest of the country catching up to
what we’ve been doing for years,” Bambrick said. “We would like to see the New
York delegation stand up for the interests of New Yorkers and tell the rest of
the country it’s time to stand up for what New York is already doing.”

Today, just days after Pope Francis appealed
for climate leadership, and as world leaders are developing ways to cut
carbon emissions, Representative Elise Stefanik cast her first climate vote and
supported legislation (HR2042) to block implementation of the Environmental
Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan, incite states to ignore federal
law, and create a legal boondoggle that would stall climate action for years,
if not decades, to come.